TimeLine Receiver vs Hyperbloom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeLine Receiver
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TimeLine Receiver is a companion app to TimeLine. It works in conjunction with the TimeLine app's "Performance Sharing" feature. Simply pair TimeLine Receiver to a device with the TimeLine app, and your phone will time travel at the same time as theirs!
Hyperbloom
Create a dynamic, interactive garden of light and sound with intuitive touch controls. Experience a calming, generative visual and auditory landscape that evolves and dissolves over time, offering a unique, goal-free experience.
- Tap to plant seeds and grow light tendrils
- Drag to bend light and stir spores
- Hold to charge and release petal shockwaves
- Generative musical score responds to gestures
- Calming, evolving visual and auditory experience
- No goals, scores, or levels
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HYPERBLOOM is a living garden of light that grows wherever you touch, and forgets you, slowly. There are no levels, no scores, and no goals. Just light, motion, and sound that respond to your hands. TAP to plant a seed and watch tendrils of neon light grow, branch, and burst into blooms. DRAG to bend the light and stir drifting spores into glowing comets. HOLD to charge a nova, then release a shockwave of petals and sound. Every gesture plays a note in a soft, generative score: a calm wash of plucks, sparkles, and deep booms that drift through reverb and echo. The garden quietly dissolves over time, so it is never the same twice and never asks anything of you. SEVEN MOODS Original, Bright, Somber, Dream, Dawn, Abyss, and Voltage. Each one swaps the color palette and the musical scale together, so the garden sounds the way it looks. MIRROR Turn on two, four, or six fold symmetry and every stroke you draw becomes a rosette. Your finger paints a mandala without you having to aim. KEEPSAKES Press the keep button once and Hyperbloom records the next twenty seconds of your garden, with its sound, as a movie you can share or save. Press and hold instead to keep the moment as a still image at full resolution, with no interface in it, which makes a good wallpaper. Built natively for iPhone with Metal and live synthesized audio for a smooth, glowing, endless experience. Perfect for unwinding, focusing, or simply watching light grow. No accounts. No ads. No data collected. Just you and the light.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TimeLine Receiver at Free against Hyperbloom's $1.99. Hyperbloom's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
TimeLine Receiver is free to download; Hyperbloom costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TimeLine Receiver ships an update monthly, Hyperbloom every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeLine Receiver | Hyperbloom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Kunvatanagarn | Craig Anthony Perkins |
In-app purchases
TimeLine Receiver
No in-app purchases
Hyperbloom
No in-app purchases
Questions
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